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* In ''[[Baccano!]]'', two gangsters pour gasoline on {{spoiler|Szilard}}'s head and then throw a match at it. "We've never set a MAN on fire before!"
** In 2001, {{spoiler|Czeslaw}} throws himself into a fireplace to burn away some ropes that have been binding him, then walks [[Out of the Inferno]] and pushes past his terrified captors, [[Healing Factor|regenerating]] as he goes.
* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
* In EP544 of [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] , May is visually set on fire after she realizes all of the food is gone (though no harm comes of it). Coincidentally, her fire-type Blaziken was about to engage in battle when the news was received.
* This is how
== Comic Books ==
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== Literature ==
* ''[[The Zombie Survival Guide]]'' advised you against using fire to fight the undead, as the only thing worse than a zombie trying to eat you is [[Infernal Retaliation|a ''burning''
== Live-Action TV ==
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* [[Big Black]]'s ''Kerosene'' is about one contemplating living the rest of their life in a small town in total boredom. Self-immolation is seen as the cure to that boredom.
** This song is considered the band's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|''Light My Fire'']] by many fans.
* The [[Hipgnosis]] cover of [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''Wish You Were Here'' album includes a photo of two businessmen, one of whom happens to be on fire, casually shaking hands. This is intended as a visual metaphor for getting burned in the music business.▼
** The man on fire could also be the Devil ([[Fire and Brimstone Hell|since Hell is full of that stuff]]), and the two shaking hands could equate going into the music business as making a [[Deal with the Devil]].▼
* The original album cover to [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s ''Street Survivors'' had the band standing in the middle of an inferno, which gave the illusion of half the band being on fire. [[Tempting Fate|Three days after the album's release]], the band's flight [[Tear Jerker|crashed]], killing four bandmates and the two pilots.▼
* Sid Wilson of the band [[Slipknot]] has been known to ''set himself on fire'' during live shows. He's stopped doing this in recent years for fears of being arrested for attempted suicide. Yes, being arrested is his main fear for his human inferno act.
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{{quote|I'm on fire.
I'm on fire.
I am, quite literally...
<big>ON FIRE!</big> }}
* Electric Six's album ''Fire'' has a Man on Fire...at the disco. Could be the hit single "Danger! High Voltage" and its constant refrain of "Fire in the disco!" Or it could be their [[Running Gag|inexplicable obsession with the word "fire."]]▼
* Till Lindemann of [[Rammstein]]. Aside from his constant fiery antics on stage, the "Du Hast" video has the drummer Christoph Schneider do this as well. And let's not forget that the first song on their first album is called "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" (for the non-German-speakers, that's "Do you want to see the bed in flames?").
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* The [[Autopsy (band)|Autopsy]] song "Charred Remains"
* [[Evile]]'s song "Burned Alive"
* The cover of [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s first album is a well-known photo of Thich Quang Duc (see Real Life folder).▼
=== Album Covers ===
▲* The [[Hipgnosis]] cover of [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''Wish You Were Here'' album includes a photo of two businessmen, one of whom happens to be on fire, casually shaking hands. This is intended as a visual metaphor for getting burned in the music business.
▲** The man on fire could also be the Devil ([[Fire and Brimstone Hell|since Hell is full of that stuff]]), and the two shaking hands could equate going into the music business as making a [[Deal with the Devil]].
▲* The original album cover to [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s ''Street Survivors'' had the band standing in the middle of an inferno, which gave the illusion of half the band being on fire. [[Tempting Fate|Three days after the album's release]], the band's flight [[Tear Jerker|crashed]], killing four bandmates and the two pilots.
▲* [[Electric Six]]'s album ''Fire'' has a Man on Fire...at the disco. Could be the hit single "Danger! High Voltage" and its constant refrain of "Fire in the disco!" Or it could be their [[Running Gag|inexplicable obsession with the word "fire."]]
▲* The cover of [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s first album is a well-known photo of Thich Quang Duc (see Real Life folder).
=== Music Videos ===
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* Parodied in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'''s Trogdor games with the "burninated" peasants.
* Melina Frost of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' is briefly set alight in one scene. By all accounts this results in her looking like [[Batman|Two-Face]]. - She actually survives this, as the fire is quickly extinguished.
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* ''[[College Saga]]'' has a brief scene in which an NPC lit on fire runs across the room while the party walks by. [[Non Sequitur Scene|The team does not interact with this NPC, the story behind this NPC is never addressed, and he is never spoken of afterwards]].
* Caboose manages to set his combat armor on fire (while wearing it, of course) in the trailer for ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Recreation''.
* In ''Wink The Game'', the PC Wink can grab torches and toss them on enemies. They set on fire, running around making [[Speaking Simlish|screaming noises]] until they disintegrate into ash
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== Western Animation ==
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'''Ned''': It's not working! [[Broken Aesop|It just spreads the flames!]] }}
** Getting stuck in a tar pit and rescued by Stampy the elephant Barney Gumble thanks him as he lights a cigarette and due to being covered with tar he catches on fire. It doesn't seem to bother him much.
** Then there was the ridiculous [[Treehouse
* Mr. Krabs in ''The [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] Movie'':
{{quote|My pants are on fire! Me underwear's on fire! ''I'm'' on fire!!}}
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* Humorously and accidentally averted in an episode of ''[[The Smurfs]]'', when Clumsy splashes water on Papa Smurf and is thanked by him for putting out his beard.
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', one episode had Bender (a ''robot'') on fire, with no explanation whatsoever. After a moment, several members of the crew put him out, [[Non Sequitur Scene|and the incident was never brought up again]].
== Real Life ==
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* Perhaps the most famous was [[wikipedia:Thích Quảng Đức|Thich Quang Duc]], a Buddhist priest who set himself on fire in protest of the South Vietnamese government in June 1963. Because he notified the press, photographers were on hand to capture on film Duc dousing himself with gasoline, lighting up, and then ''serenely sit there'' as [[Dying Moment of Awesome|he burned to death]]. His death prompted massive public protests that led to the coup that killed President Diem. Duc's heart remained intact, even after a second cremation to reduce the body to ashes for safe-keeping. The heart was kept and revered as a sacred relic.
* The Tunisian ("Jasmine") Revolution of 2010-11 was started when a young man, Mohammed Bouazizi, [[Kill It with Fire|attempted suicide by fire]] as a protest against bad conditions in the country (he died later in the hospital). Besides a full-blown revolution in Tunisia, Bouazizi's actions have inspired four copycats in Egypt, where the Mubarak regime fell one month after Bouazizi's death. Other Middle Eastern nations - Jordan, Syria, Algeria, Libya, Bahrain, and Iran - are undergoing mass protests in response to what happened in Tunisia and Egypt.
** The protests in Libya developed into a full-blown revolution, which, as of this writing,{{when}} is close to overthrowing the Libyan government. Given its efficacy in Vietnam in the 60s, and the fact that it resulted in regime change in three countries this year, this makes the present trope seem a very effective form of protest.
** At least one video has emerged of protestors accidentally setting themselves ablaze with poor Molotov throws.
* Actually happened in the Vietnam era in the USA. [[wikipedia:Norman Morrison|Norman Morrison]], a Quaker protester of the war, set himself on fire outside the Pentagon in 1965.
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